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Sounds good. But I have a minor, very-future-looking suggestion for you:Thanks Everyone I’m going tomorrow to pick up my set of wheels and tires. Would have gone today but the snow fell. I’m getting the Tesla set but but for $1300 less than the Tesla shop price. Brand new. I’ll keep my summer tires and just swap each season. Thanks for helping a Tesla newbie.
That’s why I was torn. I considered buying this set (see attached) but thought they didn’t look too different than what I have. Then I found some for performance but they said would fit. They were the Michelin ice but 265 and not 255. The cheapest were these Goodyears shown but being the first experience I want to be safe and not sorry. But selling my summer set and going all season was considered. But I live on the front range and hope to get the roof rack and this will be our vehicle to the mountains. Whole point was to save on gas expense and that drive is where we rack up mileage and expense.Sounds good. But I have a minor, very-future-looking suggestion for you:
Come The Day when the summer tires and the winter ones you've got have finally worn away in a few years, reduce your lifetime spend on tires and buy some All Seasons, instead.
I take that back if you live in the Mountains or frequency Really Snowy Places All The Time. But if you're not racing or driving around in a foot of snow all the time, then All Seasons (good ones, like the Michelin Cross Climates, which I've owned) have good mileage, run forever, and have decent traction in the snow.
Ha. So, I admit it: I grew up in the early 1960's. Back when men were men, woman were woman, and everybody drove crappy bias ply tires since that was all that was available.Just looked at my 2021 Model Y AWD with 19” tires. They say M +S so All Season. I live in the Seattle area where we only get snow a few times a year unless you go in the mountains so have never had Winter tires. Looked at some YouTube videos and they say to put it in Off-road mode when on snow. What scares me the most here is we have a lot of hills and drivers who have never driven in snow or ice and they block the road or crash into you.
For anyone that wants to get into the details of snow tires vs summer vs all seasons and AWD vs RWD vs FWD, can check out this video:
Yes. I own Blizzaks on my Escape and work well but the cross climate 2 on my model S have performed very well so far too.Lol was just about to post that!
Jason Fenske has some good information on his videos. I was a little worried when the obviously sponsored nature of the content took a big ratchet up. But, the CrossClimate 2's have definitely worked out on my Volt for the crazy variable Colorado weather. Will probably put those on the Y once the horrible OEM Continentals wear out a little bit more.
Get all weather tires. They are 3 peak mountain rated & can be driven all year. I got my wife Cross Climate 2 tires, problem solved.That complicates my decision. I hear winter and I hear all season. With your info I’m sure you know how bipolar CO weather is. So driving above 50 degrees would probably happen a lot. We r had 2 snow storms already this year and have been back in the low 70s in between. I can’t swap tires daily. So stressful to invest more money on the right thing when don’t know what that right thing is. I honestly thought I was getting a vehicle ready to drive I only know off road tires and never had anything like a car before.
@Tessa Robin
This has been my concern about Tesla. It's unstable in Snow and fish tails. Not just snow, when it rains heavily, it feels unsafe. I am sure lot of people in this forum will strongly disagree with me, but this has been my experience. I have a 2020 Y. I drive 180 miles highway a day in Upstate NY where we "get" snow. I have 117007 miles on my Y as of today. I am seriously exploring ICE options to replace my Y.
Disclaimers:
1) I have Michelin Pilot AS 4 for spring/summer/fall.
2) Michelin winter tires - X Ice.
3) I rotate tires every 5000 miles.
4) I replace tires when tread depth reaches 4/10.
5) I set the driving profile to "winter" conditions - regen set to low, acceleration set to chill and steering set to comfort.
I still drive at 65 - 68 miles/hour in winter. If it snows I slow down to 45miles or slower/hour in highway and hold on to the steering wheel for dear life. I get overtaken by almost all cars/trucks.
The problem in my opinion is the "regen braking". I hear several Tesla lovers shouting at me, you don't know how to drive, you need to easy off the pedal and not abruptly, etc. Tell that to yourself when you feel loosing control of the car driving at 45-65 miles/hour in snow with heavy trucks over taking you.
I am torn because I like my Y. But it is NOT safe in winter despite all precautions. I wish Tesla will give an option to remove the regenerative braking option for winter driving. Maybe I should also send my experience to NHTSA.
I understand. I have the snow tires on and we still rarely drive it in bad weather conditions. It still feels unstable driving. I think I’ll stick to my 4wd vehicles in bad weather.@Tessa Robin
This has been my concern about Tesla. It's unstable in Snow and fish tails. Not just snow, when it rains heavily, it feels unsafe. I am sure lot of people in this forum will strongly disagree with me, but this has been my experience. I have a 2020 Y. I drive 180 miles highway a day in Upstate NY where we "get" snow. I have 117007 miles on my Y as of today. I am seriously exploring ICE options to replace my Y.
Disclaimers:
1) I have Michelin Pilot AS 4 for spring/summer/fall.
2) Michelin winter tires - X Ice.
3) I rotate tires every 5000 miles.
4) I replace tires when tread depth reaches 4/10.
5) I set the driving profile to "winter" conditions - regen set to low, acceleration set to chill and steering set to comfort.
I still drive at 65 - 68 miles/hour in winter. If it snows I slow down to 45miles or slower/hour in highway and hold on to the steering wheel for dear life. I get overtaken by almost all cars/trucks.
The problem in my opinion is the "regen braking". I hear several Tesla lovers shouting at me, you don't know how to drive, you need to easy off the pedal and not abruptly, etc. Tell that to yourself when you feel loosing control of the car driving at 45-65 miles/hour in snow with heavy trucks over taking you.
I am torn because I like my Y. But it is NOT safe in winter despite all precautions. I wish Tesla will give an option to remove the regenerative braking option for winter driving. Maybe I should also send my experience to NHTSA.
That's weird that you've driven 100k+ miles and still have issues with winter driving in the MY. I got a set of X-Ice Snows on 19" wheels and have gone through two full Minnesota winters with them (the third winter, this year, featured almost zero snow) in my 2021 MYP. While I wouldn't say it's the greatest beast on snow or anything, it's been at least as stable as other cars I've driven in the winter, and I've had no issues with modulating regen braking in snow conditions. I have S3XY buttons that can disable regen completely in my car, and I've never actually used the feature because I prefer using regen braking even in snowy conditions now.@Tessa Robin
This has been my concern about Tesla. It's unstable in Snow and fish tails. Not just snow, when it rains heavily, it feels unsafe. I am sure lot of people in this forum will strongly disagree with me, but this has been my experience. I have a 2020 Y. I drive 180 miles highway a day in Upstate NY where we "get" snow. I have 117007 miles on my Y as of today. I am seriously exploring ICE options to replace my Y.
Disclaimers:
1) I have Michelin Pilot AS 4 for spring/summer/fall.
2) Michelin winter tires - X Ice.
3) I rotate tires every 5000 miles.
4) I replace tires when tread depth reaches 4/10.
5) I set the driving profile to "winter" conditions - regen set to low, acceleration set to chill and steering set to comfort.
I still drive at 65 - 68 miles/hour in winter. If it snows I slow down to 45miles or slower/hour in highway and hold on to the steering wheel for dear life. I get overtaken by almost all cars/trucks.
The problem in my opinion is the "regen braking". I hear several Tesla lovers shouting at me, you don't know how to drive, you need to easy off the pedal and not abruptly, etc. Tell that to yourself when you feel loosing control of the car driving at 45-65 miles/hour in snow with heavy trucks over taking you.
I am torn because I like my Y. But it is NOT safe in winter despite all precautions. I wish Tesla will give an option to remove the regenerative braking option for winter driving. Maybe I should also send my experience to NHTSA.
Those people shouting are right whether or not you will accept that. You wouldn't heavily brake when you slide in any other car, so why would you suddenly hard regen brake in your Tesla? Now you want to complain to the government... because you are braking too hard.The problem in my opinion is the "regen braking". I hear several Tesla lovers shouting at me, you don't know how to drive, you need to easy off the pedal and not abruptly, etc. Tell that to yourself when you feel loosing control of the car driving at 45-65 miles/hour in snow with heavy trucks over taking you.
I am torn because I like my Y. But it is NOT safe in winter despite all precautions. I wish Tesla will give an option to remove the regenerative braking option for winter driving. Maybe I should also send my experience to NHTSA.